FFP 608 | Does Skipping Breakfast Affect Your Hormones?
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Intermittent fasting is a trending nutrition strategy—but many women unknowingly compromise their hormonal health by skipping breakfast. In this episode, Lisa explores how breakfast impacts ovulation, energy levels, progesterone production, and overall cycle health. Drawing on research highlighted in Real Food for Fertility, she discusses why a strategic eating window—with sufficient calories and macronutrients—is critical for fertility optimization, especially for active women or those TTC.
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| 1:00.7 | In today's episode, I'm diving into an important topic. I'm diving into a research study that analyzed one of the most common practices that is essentially termed in termed in fasting, which is skipping breakfast. And the |
| 1:13.8 | question is, if you skip breakfast, are you making up for those calories by eating a bigger lunch and |
| 1:21.4 | potentially a bigger dinner? Or does it just result in accidental under-eating? So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump |
| 1:30.4 | into today's topic of intermittent fasting, and more specifically, does skipping breakfast |
| 1:36.9 | count as intermittent fasting. So today's episode is inspired by one of the sections in our newest book, Real Food for Fertility. |
| 1:50.8 | In the second chapter, Lilly covers the macronutrients in great detail, the importance of consuming sufficient protein fat and carbohydrates and balance. |
| 2:00.1 | We go through the plate method. And we also |
| 2:03.2 | talk about intermittent fasting. And we share our take on whether or not we think this is a good |
| 2:09.2 | idea. In the chapter, we break down different kinds of intermittent fasting. I mean, some people |
| 2:14.7 | will eat one meal a day, and that's what they call intermittent fasting. |
| 2:19.2 | Other people may just shorten their eating window. So instead of eating whenever they want, |
| 2:24.3 | maybe they'll eat within a six-hour window that day, or an eight-hour window or a ten-hour window. |
| 2:30.9 | And then basically at the bottom line is that there's different ways to do this. |
| 2:36.0 | What our recommendation is, if you are considering intermittent fasting, would first of all be |
| 2:41.4 | to really consider why you're doing it. There are certain situations where intermittent fasting |
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